Government engages Deloitte & Touché to find ways of dealing with street vending

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Global consultancy firm Deloitte & Touché has been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing to develop strategies of dealing with street vending in urban centres.

Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister Forrie Tembo revealed that Deloitte & Touché is expected to help Government find a lasting solution to street vending.

Mr. Tembo however refused to disclose the contract sum payable to Deloitte & Touché for the consultancy work.

He said Government decided to engage Deloitte & Touché as a way of getting alternative solutions to the problem of street vending which it has been struggling with.

Mr. Tembo said Deloitte & Touché is expected to map the street vending situation and come up with the total number of people vending on the major streets in Zambia and how they could be assisted to migrate from the streets.

“This issue has become a big headache for Government and we are saying let us hear from other specialized groups. We arrived at Deloitte & Touché because we know they are a reputable firm which can help us tackle this issue once and for all,” Mr. Tembo said.

Mr. Tembo said the report from the consultant is expected to be tabled before end of the year

99 COMMENTS

    • I have never heard of them. I have cima ACCA MBA MSc PhD and yet they are being termed as global consulting ?

      Deceptive reporting

      Thanks

    • @Mushota
      Just goes to show how ignorant and uncouth you are. Any qualified Accountant worth his sort, the world over, knows Deloitte. Its one of the big five and I don’t mean animals, idiot, I mean Accounting firms, world wide. I shudder at the thought of you having any of the qualifications you have listed. You would be an insult to the profession. Nonsense, period.

    • Cjay
      You are not worth your salt. Any accountant world over knows that the phrase is “Worth his Salt” and not worth his sort(sic)

    • Since when die Accountants now become Town Planning experts – shame on these chibwi no plan govt!
      We have enough town planning laws and Council bye laws to deal effectively with illegal trading and trading in undesignated areas. Sittwuupidi Sata and his dull ministers.

    • Appointing Deloitte & Touché for this assignment is a waste of money. The best way to solve a problem is by tackling it with those who are party to its cause, i.e Lusaka City Council, Marketeers Associations, Lusaka Chamber of Commerce, Public Health Authorities, Taxi Associations, Farmers Associations,etc

    • @ Mushota, are you sure you have never heard of Deloitte & Touche or you are just being sarcastic? Anyone from a financial background knows about this auditing firm. Please, tell me you are just joking.

      It’s a good move by the government BUT why engage such an expensive Consultancy Firm when we have our own architects, town planners, civil engineers etc.? It is high time we started utilising our own resources and learn from mistakes. I cringe at the list of people who are going to benefit from this contract!

    • God forgive our sins! Do we need a consultant to deal with street vendors?

      Just ask state Police and the local authority to move people to the markets.

    • Here is my two cents; the amount of money you will be paying Deloitte should be used to build markets to relocate vendors. We all know they don’t come cheap. Make street vending illegal again. Consumers will always buy where vendors are. If there are no street vendors, they will definitely go to the markets to buy their stuff. Bring in police to enforce the law. Even a grade one pupil knows this!

    • @Saulosi

      Is this the kind of advice you and PF colleagues give to PF-CNP here on line sure?

      If this does not confirm that PF is truely full of Chimbwis no plan, then I don’t know what will.

  2. This is unnecessary. Sylvia Masebo found a solution without consultants why is the entire ministry of local government failing. We did not put you into possession to hire people to this for you. You do it yourselves

    • Have we no bright minds in the Min. of Local Govt? To come up with ways and means to sort this problem out? Autopilot nation……

    • You tell people to go on the streets and trade, then you turn around and say that act is giving you headache. Markets are empty. Move them to the markets. Nkandu Luo once did it under MMD, Masebo did in Livingstone. Consultant for want?

    • It is true, Sylvia only needed support from Mwanawasa and she did a good job, unfortunately for Nkandu whose Uncle is a dribbler she wanted to do a good job it cost her a good Ministry and now she is there learning how to do juju with the chiefs. This is another way of wasting money or someone is getting a brown envelope for this deal.

  3. What a waste of Govt resources. The only one solution can be to re-house them in a market and the local authority can benefit in local taxes. I could help them find a solution for nothing. You mean the whole Country Zambia have got no learned people to consult. Shame Ba PF!!!

  4. What is going on here? Do you need to consult foreigners on the problem of street vendors in Zambia? Are you telling me that there is no one in Zambia who can suggest strategies of dealing with the problem of street vending? The problem is simple. Establish the cause. Why are people vending on the street rather than in designated places? You do not need foreigners to tell you why. You simply have to talk to the vendors themselves and hear their reasons. This is a demonstration of lack of faith in ourselves and a sheer wastage of public funds. What a shame!

    • They are scared of annoying the street vendors because they think they are the ones that voted them into power. The vendors always blackmail them on the ‘come 2016 we will not vote for you’.
      Power to the people, thats what you get with your slogan.

  5. Corruption at its best! Only a slow thinker would go to such an extent. You know people have no jobs, you play politics on everything! Thank God, Zambians a docile, if it was in a normal country, the millions of rebased currency being spend on this could have been paid by the contracting individual and not tax payers. A shame really

  6. This is criminal. We have by-laws stipulating where the trading areas are. The street vendors are illegal. They should be removed from the streets using the laws that are already in existence. PF is just a criminal, tribal, clueless and failed government. And what is the nepotist Mayor doing? Campaigning for the Presidency when the capital city over which he presides is a sewer!

  9. Its i a national disaster to have people who can honeslty decide to waste resources like this. The solution is known, and the fact is this is a failed project and it will yeild nothing. Just like all other tribunals and commissions of enquiries. They are futile efforts to hood wink us. The solution is allow the council to do their jobs like they were doing before. Vending is wrong and against the law. Simple. Markets must be built and everyone trade from there. Kwa Sila…

  10. Come on Mr Tembo,… really? The vending problem is self created by the party in government which believes that is employment creation and a way to it should pay back the voters by not taxing them. It needs a political solution because it was born out of a political appeasement pronouncement. It does not need foreign consultants to be paid to tell us and repeat to us what we already know and have the solution on how to resolve the problem.

  11. The amount involved can not be disclosed?
    Forie Tembo, with due respect, this is our money! You are the kind GBM would bluntly tell in your face that “te mpiya sha noko chi……”

  12. That is why we africans can not develop. How are we going to convince Pieter Willem Botha that he was wrong when he said that an African can not govern or rule himself. This is really a waste of money. These people elected in Afrcia are drum heads really. crack pots.
    Today we can not even fix a pot hole until a chinese does it. Bwafya mwe

  13. No matter how global these ‘consultants’ are, they have no capacity to ‘recommend’ and I repeat ‘recommend’ because it’s the only thing they can do and not ‘provide’ a solution to Zambia’s street vending problem. Was the contract awarded on a proposal/bid submission process? It sure would be nice to read their ‘winning’ proposal/bid.

  14. “We arrived at Deloitte & Touché because we know they are a reputable firm…”

    Definitely not the way to do a procurement! Forrie, you mean there was no evaluation (criteria)?!
    I wonder what ZPPA thinks of this…

  17. Someone in the PF government has no brain. Street vending is a product of unemployment. People are looking for ways to survive. If the PF government was indeed serious enough about job creation, we should have seen the impact of the hundreds of millions of dollars they have been borrowing, in new jobs being created and reduction of street vending. Hiring a consulting firm to solve a problem of this nature is a sheer joke.

  18. Every day I cry for Zambia. we have no leaders and the so called leaders are in diapers. Sata created this problem and now you want to waste tax payers money. No need for foreigners to tell us how to solve this problem. True, Botha was right, we African blacks cannot govern ourselves because we have uzilesi and fulishi people in power. The free ideas we have given you is what Deloits will give you for a fee. what a shemu.

    • LOL.

      Touché: an interjection used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point (Merriam Webster).

      ….in fact, I’m pretty sure they mostly just call themselves Deloitte now. Touché indeed!

  20. I can be a prophet here! Once the report is tendered and suggest anything to do with removing the vendors from our streets, his Excellence will rubbish it Meantime, taxpayers’ money would have been wasted just like all the similar undertakings in the past……

  22. Only in Zambia. ..what a sheer waste of resources. ..no wonder IMF and World Bank prescribe one-size fits all policies as we are unable to brainstorm and resolve our own problems.

  23. Another Fraudulent scheme by our clueless P.F Government.
    The Minister responsible for local Government, should have gone or sent 3 representative’s to Namibia or Botswana, & asked them- “fellow Africans” how they’ve managed to keep their cities clean. Would have cost a fraction of what that Consultancy firm will change.
    However we all know, coz we are not Daft, that Public Funds, have been”Kapokod” in this silly venture.

  24. Here is my free consultancy report: Encourage growth of industries that will absorb most of the people that are now sitting on our streets as vendors. Offer tax incentives to all those industries that will offer sustainable employment to a minimum number of Zambians. Then enforce the already existing bye-laws on street vending. I feel ashamed that I am a Zambian whenever I walk on Lumumba road South-end! We are just 13million and yet we are failing to create employment for our people? What if we were like Nigeria with more 100 million people?

    • it is not ‘by-laws.’ Rather, it is “ordinances.”
      It is not “leaders.” Rather, it is “politicians.”
      It is not “government.” Rather, it is “administration.”

  25. This is really nonsense action. What a Waste of money!The street vending issue is a legal issue! Just enforce the law, apply the political will and avoid politics of appeasement and the problem will go away! It is President Sata who reintroduced street vending and he should be the one hired to solve problem! He should be hired as consultant! We Zambians can be so superficial in analysing problems. In Livingstone, with the WTO conference, Masebo was instructed to clear street vending and clean up town and it is clean up to now. They should do what they did in Livingstone and what they are doing in demolish illegal structures. My free consultancy: SOLUTION IS APPLY RULE OF LAW,period!

  26. I thought there is a city planning department that should be able to tackle street vending issues easily without hiring highly priced professional firms. A five year old clever child can come up with multiple solutions to this stup!dly simple problem! I can’t believe the whole bunch has reached the end of their tether because of the sheer enormity of the problem! Sometimes I wonder why they even bothered to fight for independence when they clearly lack the brains to solve even the simplest of problems. Gosh!!

  27. This is a demonstration of lack of political will to deal with issues head on. Why should government waste tax payers money hiring a private consulting firm at great cost to deal with a situation whose solution is readily known and available? This is what happens when you have a government that does not want to take responsibility for its own actions. In essence, this government would like to shy away from taking drastic measures to curb street vending and instead point a finger at the consulting firm. In short, the govt is looking for someone to blame should vendors threaten not to vote for PF. Our streets are a sorry sight because of rampant street vending. We need to clean up and bring sanity to the country. Does govt know what beauty is? Are we not clean? Who is responsible?

  28. Here are two ideas for free:

    1) Similar to what many cities do for taxi drivers, tax them by auctioning a strictly limited number of licenses/medallions that street vendors in urban centers would be required to carry or even wear around their neck. Yes, counterfeiting and corrupt payments to inspectors would be a problem but genuine license holders would want to police their turf and such a system could help legalize this trade. Revenue could be used to build and maintain public toilets and for rubbish collection. Make the toilets free to license holders and fee-paying for everyone else.

    Failing that…

    2) Tear gas and water cannon.

  29. Dullness +Stup!d+imbecil!ty= PF, its not about a Tribe its MORE OF NOT GOING TO SCHOOL. Everywhere in the world ‘Human’ beings r corrupt even Americans r corrupt but there shud b a ‘restraint’.
    Its painful to be lead by this illiterate PF Govt

  30. The pf government is going crazy! in the first place, why did you allow people to trade on the streets? why do you want to waste tax payers money when it was your own making. this issue can be handled without engaging a consultant. Give the Street Vendors some jobs you promised them and the problem will go.

    Did you know that street vending is a social problem. it leads to dumping of waste on the streets, begging, abuse (Child labour and, sexual abuse,), street ism, alcoholism, sophisticated crime e.t.c. ….

    Hope the chaps are not going to just chop the money without giving viable solutions to this problem

  31. This is a shame to all of us ,Zambians,its through our leaders that the global village look from what type of brains we utilize.am ashamed to say the least.

  33. …I’m aware that for some of our brothers and sisters, vending on the street is their only source of livelihood…..but that has to be weighed against the nuisances and inconvenience they cause to the general public, environmental issues, cleanliness of the city etc……At times one just need to be cruel in order to be kind.
    Deloitte and Touché are known to be the gurus of financial auditing, when did they diversify or expand their scope to include ‘smooth process of relocating street vendors..??….is some-one trying to ‘soften’ them (D&T) as they look at some of the institutions’ accounts(books)…??

  35. please ba sata stop this impending criminal act. eventually you may have to answer from’ negligence of duty while hibernating’

  36. Unbelievable. Here is my free advice:
    1. Vendors need Customers. Customers do not like the dirty, crummy and often thievery places where the markets are located (no decent parking places for both public transport vehicles as well as private vehicles). The result is that the vendors have to follow the customers to the streets which have more space and are relatively cleaner. Solution: Create space, clean facilities, paving and modern parking at the market places. Govt and Councils should facilitate the private sector to Construct the modern packing facilities. Some buildings in LSK are better demolished to provide an investment in parking. Please learn from modernized cities around the globe.

  37. If you want to do a repair job and a hammer is the only tool at your disposal, you
    most likely to cause a lot of damage!

  38. This explains why F***K Tembo is a Minister in the opposite camp. You need sick people like him to serve as Ministers in government that is calling your party all sorts of names. This Chipata guy can even bewitch his own mother and father for money.
    He just wants a cut from the so called consultants.

  40. More funds sadly to be spent on paying for consultations, are deloitte doing this for free??? And then they take the govt to court for failing to pay them K20 million for a useless consultation and report which all the above seemingly well educated bloggers could provide for free. These govt official that approached deloitte are the double agents that are bringing the good works of PF down, what destroyed our cities is the Congo mentality of trading which started with Kafupi’s MMD govt. We have neighbours that we can copy from in Botswana and Namibia, let’s find out for free from their municipalities through their and our high commissioners how they are coping with this problem.

    • You can’t even be objective about blaming your PF, it has to be someone else’s fault. Did this guy act outside the PF’s authority? Do you have these facts? If not, we have to assume that the whole PF government has given it’s blessing to this nonsense. The only thing bringing down the PF is the PF, simple!

    • @2020vision

      You see mate, this is why we call PF-CNP chimbwi no plan. Instead of using that money to develop some land by paving it then engaging a Zambian company to make make shift flat pack still stores which can be assembled when needed, PF-CNP is wasting money buying services which even clever grade 9 can provide.

      Is this the work of Mulenga Sata who PF think can rule this country?

      This a joke of the week. Even Zimbabweans are laughing at PF-CNP initiatives.

      Why are they hiding the contract amount? PF-CNP and transparency are sworn enemies.

      PF-CNP wawa.

  41. Doing studies to understand the root cause of problems is normal and should be encouraged. I believe the consultants will be able to answer the question; why do the vendors use the streets rather than the markets? Are the fees charged at the markets too expensive for their type of business? What fees would be bearable for them? Will the vendors’ customers go to markets if vendors were relocated? How can vendors be supported to make their businesses more sustainable? Do you require different markets for different wares? Going by most of the comments above, the general notion is that vendors should be moved, but that does not answer the question of where to and how do we make them stay there? Sometimes the most obvious answer is the wrong one.

    • Do you remember way back in the MMD when the vendors dissapeared because the government acted decisively to get rid of them? That happened because we had people with brains who could think strategically, an aspect seriously lacking in PF. They would do better to transfer Nkandu Luo to Local government and she will sort this sh!t out in less than a month. The equation is ridiculously easy. Relocate the vendors to markets and since they won;t be on the streets anymore, customers will be forced to go to the markets. I can tell you that even if the Market fees came down to 10 ngwee a day, vendors would still not want to pay and would rather trade on the street. A lot of things need in depth study, yes, but vending already has a rich precedence in Zambia.

    • Dudelove, thank you for your observation. My reasoning was that if this issue is not looked at objectively, the vendors might move from the major roads only to return after a few months. In making decisions we need to recognise that povery makes people do this type of business; to enable them pay for medicine, food and educate their children or siblings; It saves their lives and they have to do it. When you say customers will be forced to go to markets, do you know if there is spare capacity to absorb the vendors? Is the infrastructure there to support increased footfall? For me these are the questions consultants can answer and make recommendations on. You are correct that some of them wouldn’t pay 10ngwee but that is the point at which you use law enforcement measures.

  42. I have started a petition to “Stop awarding an unnecessary wastage of funds by contracting a profit making Doitte & Touché instead of a Non Profit grassroots organisation”
    Please lets unite and stop this rubbish. Support the petition at change.org

    • If you collect enough signatures, you could also ask the British Gov’t to help us by taking steps to encourage Deloitte to exercise ethical behaviour towards Africa by not engaging in these types of schemes. Maybe ask Actionaid to take your petition to the govt in UK.

  43. This is a Frankenstein of PFs own creation. Why when Luo tried to deal with this problem she was demoted – not only that -she was made to knell down and apologise (crying ne fimina).
    Ask her…

  44. God help Zambia! Just google ‘Street vending problems’ and you will find milions of solutions. No need to spend tax payers money on home bred problems. What is the problem? How is street vending a problem? The Zambian situation is not new. learn from other countries, how they have minimised street vending. Building markets is not a solution.

  45. There was no need to engage a consultant. This problem was created by Kabimba who wanted to please the vendors claiming they supported PF and since PF didn’t have the jobs for them as promised, he decided to put the Councils under siege by promoting street vending. Now that he is not there to resist the relocation, which the vendors themselves have no problem agreeing to, let the Council apply the necessary bylaws and possibly impose penalties on anyone trading without a hawker’s licence for those that want to trade on the streets.

  46. We all expected that the first govt action and policy after PF won was to clean up cities, send vendors to markets, build toilets, demand clean environment from business houses, improve sewerage & water systems in town. I remember a friend who commented that with PFs winning people will now be arrested for spitting on the street. All this was built upon Satas past work as local gvt minister. But alas! PF has brought more filth in the cities than all past gvts put together. Sata himself stopped any action against vendors repatriation – following in FTJs cadre mentality! The consequences hv bn terrible. ACC offices on katondo street are engulfed by 2nd hand socks, shoes & clothes, fish, rotten fruits etc. Pls Tembo, you do not need foreigners to solve this! L/stone is the way to go.

  47. Wow, next we shall have a consultancy on governance, we do not seem to know where we are going! But there is money for such knee-jerk decisions.

  48. Sylvia Masebo and Nkandu Luo, as other bloggers have already alluded to, sorted this mess out. Why honestly engage D & T, and at what cost? If all else fails, just consultant President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. He has an answer to this issue. Epo mpelele.

  49. To cabinet ministers,read some brilliant solutions provided by most of the bloggers and save the money which you want to waste on consultancy,that money can build some clean rest rooms(toilets) at some of our local markets.Daniel chisanga ,ex Lusaka mayor laid down a better solution on street vending,he exposed himself well to visiting numerous nation around the globe.

  50. Mr President was once quoted as saying “leave my vendors alone” and now money is being spent just to come up with solutions that are already known. This is the definition of misplaced leadership………. Foolish government.

    • In most humans, maturity is an illusive thing. In Zambia we elect leaders based on how clever they sound to be. But sounding clever is not maturity. A mature person, even if he/she were illiterate, will have a tendency to make mature decisions. The decisions the PF government has been making take on the appearance of immaturity or childishness, very much akin to what one makes when drunk. It is a sad state of affair.

  51. does it even matter weather they are BIG 5 or even 5 STAR????? street vending is a self imposed disease we are suffering from due to cheap politics of promising people things we cannot afford to give them. thats just a way of diverting tax payers money to very unnecesary ventures when we have lots of infrastructure to deal with…..

  53. Ba S.Masebo and baNkandu Luo you are MPs of the ruling PF, you honestly know how to handle this problems but why do you want you Govt to spend money on unnecessary survey when you can help and channel the money to other developmental projects. Please be patriotic bane…

  54. @ FOLOKO – in as much as i do not like either Masebo or Luo, I appreciate they did try, but they were very quickly stopped by their lord and master. Afterall, Sata gave directives to leave the street vendors well alone.

  55. Clearly African governments have no faith in their own institutions. This is why our politicians perpetuate a sense of dependency or neo-colonialism amongst their citizenry. Why would Deloite and Touche be deemed to be more knowledgeable about African social issues than our own Universities and academics? Africans always ask for expertise from Europeans because the inferiority complex born out of colonialism drives them towards their masters everytime they have a problem. The colonialist is still in control of our thought process and as such we will never progress. Africans start looking at yourselves for solutions.

    • It starts with you and me. We must free ourselves. The destruction of this colonial mentality can only be done by ourselves. Noone will ever come and liberate us mentally.
      “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. none but our selves can free our minds.” so said Bob Marley

  56. I don’t know what the problem is here. Its an issue that does not need any debate. Just tell them to leave the street and trade in designated place. Period!!!!! The State has those powers. Who would refuse? No one! It’s just that somebody somewhere has tolerated them and has encouraged that as a political gimmick. Now, the solution lies in removing the person who encourages street vending.

  57. This is one of the most stupid ideas , I have ever heard. The only way it can not be stupid is if someone in Government is getting a cut. Street vending is due to lack of employment. Do you really need Deloitte to tell u that. There is street vending everywhere , bcs the streets are where the unemployed who have time on their hands can display goods they purchased to the few employed who do not have time on their hands as they have to go to work . The streets are cheaper than established shops bcs they have no fixed structure costs and other overheads like premises tax . The richer the society the lower the vending , period . Unless the consultation is a ploy to pay street vendors for the upcoming elections.

  58. PF is the worst Government our beloved country has ever had. I have never seen such an incompetent and impotent Government.

  59. Advantage: It is good news gov’t are finally looking to tackle the eyesore street vendors cause and the poor image given to tourists. This will improve our image abroad and at home. HOWEVER
    I worked in the finance sector 2000-2007 and mildly know that Deloitte Touché although predominantly financial services; have been paid to undertake research and consultancy in areas remotely connected to finance, so nothing ‘too undue’ in hiring them. My opinion it is a waste of money and is suspect to not use our own policies and law. I found the following two complaints from past clients insightful:-
    Australian Tobacco Industry – In 2011, Deloitte was commissioned by the tobacco industry to compile a report on illicit tobacco. More coming……

  60. Type: bata (dot) com (dot) au. Should lead you to This document MD99T566.pd Australian Tobacco Industry – In 2011, Deloitte was commissioned by the tobacco industry to compile a report on illicit tobacco. The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officials called the report “potentially misleading” and raised concerns about the “reliability and accuracy” of the data.[42] When a second Deloitte report focusing on counterfeit cigarettes was released, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor described the second report as “baseless and deceptive” and “bogus. “[43] Public health officials criticised Deloitte’s decision to conduct the research, as it added credibility to the tobacco industry’s effort to undermine the Government’s plain cigarette packaging legislation…

  61. Disputes involving Deloitte also include:
    ActionAid – In November 2013, the international development charity ActionAid accused Deloitte of advising large businesses on how they could use Mauritius to avoid potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of tax in some of the poorest countries in Africa.[33]

    IS OUR GOV’T money laundering? The final report may not be useful to us and as Stated by bloggers; why pay ‘undisclosed sums’ for this matter? We can deal with it ourselves. OPPOSITION wrestle the gov’t over this please. Surely HH this is in your court?

  62. ZAMBIA READ PAGE 4 OF ACTION AIDS REPORT ON ZAMBIA SUGAR!
    In my opinion this hiring relates to the Tax problems leading to Kabs firing more than Vendors!

    Type:- actionaid (dot) org (dot) uk Please find this report:- deloitte_in_africa_1.pdf

    PAGE 4 of the report relating to Zambia
    In a single case previously uncovered by ActionAid a British sugar company was avoiding enough tax in Zambia to put an additional 48,000 children through primary school every year.17 Lost tax revenue could also be used to build self-sustaining economies and to reduce aid dependency in parts of the world.
    Deloitte’s presentation also sheds light on how Mauritius is being viewed by companies seeking to invest in Africa. Mauritius has signed double taxation treaties with 14

  63. Clearly the Action Aid report, shows why we do not want to hire Deloitte for this small matter. NO! ‘Something’s wrong in Denmark,’ as I keep saying! Look this really sucks! This company has already lost us Taxes enough to put kids in school. We have ma’am
    Kaseba touring schools and saying education is important and we have President Sata giving back taxes and THEN hiring the same firm that has already lost us enough money to provide our kids with the said education. And those MPs want a pay rise?? How did anyone think the Deloitte connection was a good one. DO WE HAVE AN OPPOSITION IN ZAMBIA TO PUT THIS GOV’T IN LINE. THIS MUST BE STOPPED. THIS AIN’T VENDORS ITS TAX ‘DEROUTING,’ pardon my capital letters I AM MAD AS HELL!!!!!

  64. Here is a pragmatic solution if we are all serious. First of all a law must be enacted in parliament or using Presidential executive powers to outlaw street vending. Start by emptying all prisons of petty crimes.(1) Publicize this law for about six months
    (2) Remove and repatriate all markets from the city to compounds(3) All monies collected in terms of levies should directly go cleaning of surrounding areas.(5) Govt to set up serious loans for all those intending to start merchandising
    “No one is allowed to sell, solicit, or buy from streets within the proximity of the city, bus stops etc. Selling will only be allowed in residential areas by the vicinity of your house.” if you are found breaking this law you will go to prison for not less than 5 yrs. Cities will be clean seriously.

    • We already have those laws and already taken most of those steps successfully in some cities. Nothing but action needs to be taken..

  66. I was expecting “to audit the mines” at the end of that statement and not street venders. How can you get people who charge apprx £1000 per hour in consultation fees to tell you how not to sell food and makwebo on the streets? This is day light robbery? This stinks to high hell!

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